Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 5480 = G 2340
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- Tomb Owner
- Heti (G 5480)
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- Excavator
- (Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Attested
- Khenut (in G 5480)
- Meresankh (in G 5480)
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- Alternate Reisner No
- G 2340
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- Lepsius No
- LG 29
- Lepsius 29
- L.29
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- PorterMoss Date
- Late Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6
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- Harpur Date
- Unis - Teti ?
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- Jacquet-Gordon Date
- End Dyn 5 - Begin Dyn 6
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 5480 A; G 5480 X
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- GEM_8019
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- HUMFA_33-2-192
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- GEM_8020
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Base fragment of limestone statue of Heti
- HUMFA_12-11-1
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Base of limestone standing statue of Heti
- KHM_ÄS_8543
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- HUMFA_33-2-190
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- PMAE_59283
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- HUMFA_33-2-208
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- HUMFA_33-2-193
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- RPM_2407
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- Diary page dates 10/10/1912
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- Diary page dates 10/11/1912
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- Diary page dates 10/12/1912; 10/13/1912
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- Diary page dates 10/15/1912; 10/16/1912; 10/17/1912
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- Diary page dates 10/23/1912; 10/24/1912
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- Diary page dates 02/24/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/20/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/16/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/18/1933; 02/19/1933; 02/20/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/20/1933; 02/21/1933; 02/22/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/22/1933; 02/23/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/23/1933; 02/24/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/24/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/24/1933; 02/25/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/25/1933; 02/26/1933
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- Diary page dates 02/16/1940; 02/17/1940; 02/18/1940
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- Diary page dates 05/19/1940
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K11_ApxA1_p056
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K11_ApxA1_p058
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K11_ApxA1_p059
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.25
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- ID: HUMFA_PL449
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1007
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1008
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1011
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1167
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1242
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1272
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1428
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Jacquet-Gordon, Domaines funéraires, 302-3 (41G5-6), figs. 88-9.
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 3. Die Mastabas der vorgeschrittenen V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1938, p. 34, fig. 1.
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 7. Der Ostabschnitt des Westfriedhofs, Erster Teil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 3. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1944, plan after pl. 40.
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 8. Der Ostabschnitt des Westfriedhofs, Zweiter Teil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 1. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1947, pp. 11-22, figs. 3, 4, pls. 3, 4, 6(a).
Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G223.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler Text 1, 59.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "A Dig Divided: The Giza Mastaba of Heti, G 5480 (Giza Archives Gleaning IV)." In Zahi Hawass, Peter Der Manuelian and Ramadan Hussein, eds. Perspectives on Ancient Egypt. Studies in Honor of Edward Brovarski. CASAE 40. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2010, pp. 235–72.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Penmeru Revisited–Giza Mastaba G 2197 (Giza Archives Gleanings V)." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 45 (2009), p. 34.
Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, pp. 163-164, plan 28.
Ancient People
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of G 5480. Appears in chapel relief (west and north walls and chapel entrance door jamb, name not preserved in chapel); in situ in G 5480. Headless seated statue (Cairo TR 20.1.41.4) inscribed for Heti, identified as [rx nswt] royal acquaintance; incomplete standing pair statue (Cambridge E 42.1926) inscribed for Heti and his sister Khenut, and base of limestone standing statue (KHM Vienna ÄS 8543) inscribed for Heti, identified (on both) as [zAb jmy-r sS] judge, overseer of scribes; all found in G 5480 serdab. Limestone statue base (12-11-1 = MFA 13.3447) inscribed for Heti, identified as [zAb jmy-r sS] judge, overseer of scribes; found in upper debris of G 2360 A, originally from G 2340 = G 5480. Uninscribed scribal statue of Heti (Hildesheim 2407); head found in mastaba of Khenit, body found in serdab of G 5480.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Sister ([snt=f] his sister) of Heti (owner of G 5480). Incomplete standing pair statue (Cambridge E 42.1926) inscribed for Heti and Khenut; Khenut identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; found in G 5480 serdab.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Mother ([mwt=s] her mother) of Khenut (sister of Heti, owner of G 5480). Name appears on incomplete standing pair statue (Cambridge E 42.1926) inscribed for Heti and Khenut; Meresankh identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; found in G 5480 serdab.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1810–1884
- Remarks Egyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2330 = G 5380, G 2320 = G 5280, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2331, G 2332, G 2334
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2330 (= G 5380) with pottery (including: jars 12-10-56–12-10-65, bowl stands 12-10-66–12-10-69, bread molds 12-10-70–12-10-71) in fill (foreground center) and associated exterior pits (abutting W face, foreground left) and G 2331, G 2332, G 2334 (all abutting E face), G 2320 (= G 5280) (to W), G 2340 (= G 5480 = Lepsius 29) (to E), looking N
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2366, G 2365, G 2364, G 2363, G 2362, G 2371, G 2360, G 2336, G 2335, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2330 = G 5380
Description: Cemetery G 2300: space between G 2371 (to E), G 2360 (to W), G 2366, G 2365, G 2364, G 2363, and G 2362 (abutting E face of G 2360), looking S to G 2336 and G 2335, G 2340 (= G 5480 = Lepsius 29), and G 2330 (= G 5380) from photographic tower
ID: HUMFA_C2896P_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480) X, burial (skeleton), looking E
ID: HUMFA_B7492_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480), chapel, entrance, N door jamb, relief (standing figures [names not preserved]), looking NW
ID: HUMFA_C13412_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2150, G 2200 = G 5080, G 2342 = G 5020, G 2370, G 5520, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2120
Description: Limestone objects and plaster cast of basket: top row: [G 2150 A] 33-1-57 (= MFA 33.1057), [G 2200 (= G 5080) B] 33-2-153 (= MFA 33.1097), [G 5020 B] 33-2-178 (= MFA 33.1103, model dish), [S of G 2370] 33-1-91 (= MFA 33.1069), [G 2342 (= G 5520) c] 33-3-36 (= MFA 33.1135), [E of G 2370] 33-2-213b (= MFA 33.1164.2); bottom row: [G 2340 (= G 5480) A] 33-2-193 (= MFA 33.1108, canopic jar lids), [G 2120 A] 33-1-30 (plaster cast of basket), [E of G 2370] 33-2-213a (= MFA 33.1164.1)
ID: HUMFA_C13413_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2340 = G 5480, G 2370, G 5562, G 2100, G 5230, G 4940
Description: Stone model vessels and other objects: top row: [G 2340 (= G 5480) A] 33-2-192 (six alabaster model dishes); middle row: [E of G 2370] 33-3-15 (= MFA 33.1126, fragment of schist bracelet), [G 2347 X (= G 5562 A)] 33-2-156 (= MFA 34.47, one of two), 33-2-157 (= MFA 34.46), 33-2-158 (one of two), [E of G 2370] 33-3-7 (= MFA 33.1121, lid); bottom row: [E of G 2100] 33-2-183 (= MFA 33.1106), [G 2340 (= G 5480) A] 33-2-191, [G 5230 A] 33-1-81, [G 2347 X (= G 5562 A)] 33-2-159, 33-2-158 (= MFA 33.1019, one of two), 33-2-156 (= MFA 34.45 deaccessioned = Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Memphis 1981.1.8, one of two), [G 4940 B] 33-2-209 (= MFA 33.1115)
ID: HUMFA_C13409_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5230, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2342 = G 5520
Description: Limestone canopic jars: [G 5230 A] 33-1-82 + 33-1-89 (= MFA 33.1066), [G 2340 (= G 5480) A] 33-2-208 (= MFA 33.1114, jar and lid), [G 2342 (= G 5520) A] 33-3-31 (= MFA 33.1132)
ID: HUMFA_A707_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2366, G 2365, G 2364, G 2363, G 2362, G 2371, G 2360, G 2336, G 2335, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2330 = G 5380
Description: Cemetery G 2300: space between G 2371 (to E), G 2360 (to W), G 2366, G 2365, G 2364, G 2363, and G 2362 (abutting E face of G 2360), looking S to G 2336 and G 2335, G 2340 (= G 5480 = Lepsius 29), and G 2330 (= G 5380) from photographic tower
ID: HUMFA_A715_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2320 = G 5280, G 2330 = G 5380, G 2331, G 2332, G 2334, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2335, G 2336, G 2337, G 2352, G 2353, G 2360, G 2371
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2320 (= G 5280) (to W), G 2330 (= G 5380) (center) with G 2331, G 2332, G 2334 (all abutting E face), and G 2340 (= G 5480 = Lepsius 29) (to E), G 2335, G 2336, G 2337, G 2352, G 2353, G 2360, G 2371, looking N from photographic tower
ID: HUMFA_A851_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2337, G 2336, G 2330 = G 5380, G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 2300: G 2337 (foreground), G 2336 and G 2335 (middle ground center), and surrounding area, including G 2340 (= G 5480 = Lepsius 29) and G 2330 (= G 5380), looking W from photographic tower
ID: HUMFA_A6040_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480), Heti, chapel, W wall, relief (detail, funerary priests) and inscription (compartment offering list), looking W
ID: HUMFA_A6041_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480), Heti, chapel, W wall, relief (Heti seated at offering table [name not preserved]) and inscription (compartment offering list), looking W
ID: HUMFA_A6042_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480), Heti, chapel, W wall, inscription (raised relief compartment offering list), looking W
ID: HUMFA_A6043_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480), Heti, chapel, N wall, relief (standing figure of Heti [name not preserved], and registers of livestock procession, domesticated and wild), looking N
ID: HUMFA_B1261_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2330 = G 5380, G 2320 = G 5280, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2331, G 2332, G 2334
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2330 (= G 5380) with pottery (including: jars 12-10-56–12-10-65, bowl stands 12-10-66–12-10-69, bread molds 12-10-70–12-10-71) in fill (foreground center) and associated exterior pits (abutting W face, foreground left) and G 2331, G 2332, G 2334 (all abutting E face), G 2320 (= G 5280) (to W), G 2340 (= G 5480 = Lepsius 29) (to E), looking N
ID: HUMFA_B1706_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2360, G 2391, G 2300 = G 5190, G 2326, G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Miscellaneous stone objects: top row: [G 2360 A, originally from G 2340 = G 5480] 12-11-1 (= MFA 13.3447, limestone statue base, Heti), [G 2391] 12-12-164 (= MFA 13.3448, alabaster statue base, Khufu); bottom row: [surface debris] 12-11-66 (fragment of hand from alabaster statue), [G 2300 (= G 5190) A] 12-10-22 (= MFA 13.3446, limestone model left ear), 12-10-23 (= MFA 13.3445, limestone model right ear), [G 2326 C] 12-11-65 (= MFA 13.3449, hand of alabaster statue)
ID: HUMFA_B1275_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2336, G 2335, G 2337, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2330 = G 5380, G 2331, G 2332, G 2334, G 2361, G 2356, G 2327, G 2326, G 2360
Description: Cemetery G 2300: G 2336 and G 2335, and surrounding area, including G 2337, G 2340 (= G 5480 = Lepsius 29), G 2330 (= G 5380) with G 2331, G 2332, G 2334 (all abutting E face of G 2330 = G 5380), and G 2361, G 2356, G 2327, G 2326, looking SW from photographic tower (SE corner of G 2360, foreground right)
ID: HUMFA_C2892_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480) X, pit, looking E
ID: HUMFA_C2896_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480) X, burial (skeleton), looking E
ID: HUMFA_C2899_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480) X, burial (skeleton), looking E
ID: PDM_01083
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 5481, G 5482
Description: G 5481, entrance on S, and ruined mastaba G 5482 to the S of it and closer to the entrance to G 5840, all N of entrance of G 5480 (chapel door at extreme left of image), looking NW
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_2939
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Cemetery G 5000 (cemetery G 2300): G 2340 (= G 5480), Heti, chapel, entrance, N door jamb, relief (standing figures [names not preserved]), looking NNE
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_2940
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Cemetery G 5000: G 5480, Heti, chapel, N wall, relief (standing figure of Heti [name not preserved], and registers of livestock procession), looking N
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_2941
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Cemetery G 5000: G 5480, Heti, chapel, W wall, relief (Heti seated at offering table [name not preserved], funerary priests) and inscription (compartment offering list), looking WSW
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5732
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; view: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Cemetery G 5000: G 5480, Heti, serdab, two statues (headless seated statue = Egyptian Museum Cairo TR 20.1.41.4 (crossed out number: 11.5.14.9), seated scribe statue = Hildesheim 2407) in situ, looking E
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5750
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 5370, G 2340 = G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 5000: general view, area E of G 5370 (middle ground left) and G 2340 (= G 5480) (middle ground center), looking W
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5773
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: G 5480 (= G 2340 = Lepsius 29) Heti, chapel from above, looking S
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5850
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Uninscribed seated scribe statue from G 5480, serdab (profile proper left): Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 2407
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5851
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Headless seated statue inscribed for Heti from G 5480, serdab (front)
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5852
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Standing statue inscribed for Heti and Khenut from G 5480, serdab (front): Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge E 42.1926
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5854
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Headless seated statue inscribed for Heti from G 5480, serdab (profile proper right)
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5863
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Uninscribed seated scribe statue from G 5480, serdab (front): Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim 2407
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5889
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Menhebu, G 5480 = G 2340, S 508/658, S 502/593, S 501/589
Description: Cemetery G 5000: area between mastaba of Menhebu (to E, top of W side of mastaba, foreground, with shaft S 602 foreground left) and G 5480 (to W, background right), including mastaba S 508/658 (middle ground left) with mastaba S 502/593 (to N), and mastaba S 501/589 (E of G 5480, S of chapel entrance, false door in situ), looking W
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480
Description: Standing pair statue inscribed for Heti and Khenut from G 5480, serdab (front): Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge E 42.1926
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480
Description: Base (with feet and lower legs) of limestone standing statue inscribed for Heti from G 5480, serdab: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 8543
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5480 = G 2340
Description: Uninscribed seated scribe statue from G 5480, serdab: Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim 2407
ID: GEM_8020_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 5480
Description: Alabaster model cylinder jar from G 2340 (= G 5480) A: GEM_8020 (= HUMFA_33-2-191 = EMC_JE_60554 = EMC_SR_2/1224)
ID: PMAE_59283_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 5480
Description: Incomplete skeleton from G 2340 (= G 5480) X: PMAE_59283
ID: PMAE_59283_002
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 5480
Description: Incomplete skeleton from G 2340 (= G 5480) X: PMAE_59283
ID: PMAE_59283_003
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 5480
Description: Incomplete skeleton from G 2340 (= G 5480) X: PMAE_59283
ID: PMAE_59283_004
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 5480
Description: Pubic symphysis, taphonomy, from G 2340 (= G 5480) X: PMAE_59283
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2337 X, G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 2300: G 2337 X, Djati, chapel, false door and portion of relief-carved wall (behind gate), looking WSW towards G 5480
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2337 X, G 5480, G 5481 (?)
Description: Cemetery G 2300: G 2337 X, Djati, chapel, false door and portion of relief-carved wall (foreground right, behind gate), looking SW towards G 5480 and G 5481 (?)
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2337 X, G 5480
Description: Cemetery G 2300: G 2337 X, Djati, chapel, false door and portion of relief-carved wall (behind gate), looking W, with N end of G 5480 (background left)
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